Food articles posted in Feb 2006

On Pete Wells’ “In the Belly of the Blog”

Got an e-mail from the Pinoy food bloggers mailing list and it seems that some food bloggers are smarting from a Food & Wine column by someone called Pete Wells. The guy doesn’t have a lot of good things to say about food blogs. In fact, he’s downright insulting especially for what he terms as [...]

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February 13, 2006 | Mailbox

Lasang Pinoy 7 : Potato omelet

potato omelet Because I feel so bad about not having been able to submit an entry for Lasang Pinoy 6, the pulutan edition, I am posting my entry for Lasang Pinoy 7: Gising na! ALMUSAL! (Wake up! Breakfast time!) a full 16 days before the deadline. It goes without saying that I don’t ever want to miss another Lasang Pinoy event again….

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February 12, 2006 | Asia & beyond, Comfort food, The breakfast club

Humba (braised pork belly)

humba (braised pork belly) A classic Filipino pork dish, the traditional way of cooking humba is to slowly simmer a whole slab of pork belly in a mixture of tausi (salted black beans), vinegar, dark brown sugar, garlic, onions, peppercorns and oregano. The more elegant way of cooking humba is to grill the pork belly first until the rind is all crisp and puffy and then braise it in the usual mixture of herbs and spices. The cooked humba acquires the texture of pata tim–the rind is chewy and the meat is very, very tender…

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February 12, 2006 | Filipino food, Meat recipes

Sweet and sour chicken

sweet and sour chicken thigh fillets When I cooked this dish before, I used chicken breast fillets and chicharo (snow peas or snap peas). I’m not particularly a fan of chicken breast meat or any white meat for the matter. That goes for my husband and kids as well. Chicken breast is always the last to get eaten in our house and only in cases of sheer hunger. So as not to be wasteful, when I cook a whole chicken, I cut off the breast, boil it separately and flake the meat to make chicken salad. It’s always a good idea to have a jar of chicken salad in the fridge for sandwiches…

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February 11, 2006 | Asian cooking, Chinese recipes

Chicken and macaroni salad

When my 12-year-old daughter had some classmates over last Friday for a play rehearsal, I made plenty of chicken and macaroni salad for them. But not the one in the photo. The chicken and macaroni salad in the photo was taken last year and was posted in the now defunct A Party Journal. Of course, it’s the same recipe except that the salad in the photo was ‘dressed up’–bed of romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese, a slice of hard-boiled egg. Last Friday, instead of grated parmesan cheese, I stirred about a cup of tiny cheese cubes into the salad…

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February 9, 2006 | Asia & beyond, Chicken, duck & turkey, Noodle fest

School lunch: fish fillet and buttered vegetables

*Originally published in House on a hill on February 6, 2006
This was my kids school lunch last Friday. I would have posted it on Friday morning after the kids left for school but I was busy the whole day. My 12-year-old daughter, Alex, was having some classmates over in the afternoon to prepare for a [...]

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February 6, 2006 | School lunchbox

No bake chocolate-almonds-cream cheese cookie squares

The crust, made with cocoa powder, sugar and egg, is cooked in a sauce pan, mixed with sliced almonds and graham cracker crumbs, pressed onto a shallow baking pan, cooled, then topped with the cream cheese frosting. In the original recipe, from Cooking Class Cookbook (Publications International Ltd., 1994), the chocolate is melted with some [...]

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February 6, 2006 | No-fuss cookies, The amateur baker

Pork teriyaki fried rice

pork teriyaki fried rice Today’s lunch for the kids and myself, a fried rice dish made with cold cooked rice, a single pork steak, two pieces of Chinese sausage (longganisang macau), a carrot, canned sweet corn kernels, frozen sweet peas, and an egg.